Hartland Quay

At Hartland Quay and the surrounding area it’s the sea cliffs and their eroded remains protruding from the sandy beach like skeletons of long dead creatures that I find most interesting. They were laid-down as sediments in a shallow tropical sea, rich in marine life during the geological Carboniferous period and have been compressed and transformed into alternating layers of sandstone, shale and limestone during the intervening millennia.